Month: March 1999

“The Web is less and less like a toy-laden treehouse for bright, creative misfits and more a complex reflection of our world in all its banal and commercial aspects “

Former Wired News reporter Steve Silberman, on his decision to avoid working for Barry Diller by going to work for Si Newhouse, Wired News, 10 March 1999

“The only thing you see on buses is America Online. They’re everywhere! Every bus! I’m sick of it! I wanna get a shotgun.”

Barnesandnoble.com CEO Jonathan Bulkeley, on his former employer and current business partner, The Industry Standard, 5 March 1999

“We are not only not dead, we are really excited about this.”

Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, celebrating his company’s back-from-the-morgue zombie jamboree that’s actually winning market share from Windows NT, Barron’s, 8 March 1999 (paid subscription required)

“What happened to Netscape? That’s a long story.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, closing the book on one of his e-commerce competitors, News.com, 4 March 1999

“Ecommerce does not read Wired magazine.”

The editors of Business 2.0, who in their misplaced metonymy neglect to mention that nobody reads their magazine at all, Business 2.0, March 1999